Word: loy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whipsaw (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) embodies the ultimate variations in what can be done with a G-man (Spencer Tracy) keeping tabs on a girl (Myrna Loy) with whom he falls in love. She has the Koronoff pearls in the handle of the mirror of her dressing-case set, but does not know it. They have been planted there by one of two gangs of thieves competing for them. Including scenes in London, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans the double-headed chase goes rollicking along in steamboats, planes and hired automobiles...
...proof vest. Her indignant belief that his attentions to the female spy are nothing but a wanton flirtation finally lands them in a trap where the dapper lieutenant saves Joel from gunfire by knocking her down with a blow on the jaw, almost precisely as Powell did to Myrna Loy in The Thin...
...actresses have benefited by Myrna Loy's salary strike last summer. Luise Rainer got Miss Loy's part in Escapade. That picture, in which William Powell starred, encouraged the studio to try the trick again in Rendezvous. Before that, Rosalind Russell, 28, had appeared in eight minor roles, impressed critics most favorably in Forsaking All Others...
Born in Düsseldorf, educated in Switzerland and trained for five years by Max Reinhardt, she went to Hollywood on contract last year and had apparently been completely overlooked when Myrna Loy, after the picture had been in production two days, walked out of Escapade. Luise Rainer was popped into the part so hurriedly that M-G-M did not even have time to think up an intelligent publicity campaign. First described thoughtlessly as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo, whom she resembles less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised...
...playing the role of a brilliant amateur detective who combines the qualities of fearlessness and absolute self-confidence with the ability to handle difficult situations in a manner both charming and graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience in a continual suspense which is climaxed by the dramatic...